Bug Week and Other Stories

A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of whitecollar deadbeats attend a swingers party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night. Bug Week is a scalpel-clean examination of male entitlement, a dissection of death, an agar plate of mundanity. From 1960s Wellington to post-Communist Germany, Bug Week traverses the weird, the wry and the grotesque in a story collection of human taxonomy.